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Best of the Best: Championship Karate leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi leans Execution (Competitive PvP).

EXECUTION8 /10READS4 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 7

Best of the Best: Championship Karate leans harder on execution: Timing strikes and blocks precisely is the core of fighting

Reads4 vs 5

Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi leans harder on reads: Versus humans, predicting teleport counters and ki tactics matters

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization4 vs 4

Even - both lean on optimization about the same.

Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

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Best of the Best: Championship Karate

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Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi